I planted mine a couple of days ago (lautrec wight) along with the electric and radar onions curtacy of kitchen garden mag and dt brown seeds. planted them as per dt browns instructions 1" covering of soil.

As i have already mentioned i am new to veg growing and i don,t know what a blown sprout is, i think it is loose leaved and fluffy, i am sure someone will inform me, my first year i was just experimenting while i got my lottie weed free and my two sprout plants were loose and fluffy, second year the...

Happy birthday robo, and i hope you have many more to come.

robo, sprouts are a lot tastier after a frost maybe your plants are the same?

Pawty, you are not wrong,I have only been involved in gardening (allotment) a couple of years but i am totally hooked

Will do Primrose I have just the right place for them, thanks

this is my first year growing chilli/peppers, I have only just found this topic and found it very helpful, thanks to all of you who have posted on the subject, I think next year will be much more productive. What a lovely forum to be a member of!

My large pest came in the form of a cat from a new neighbour, now i could not hurt a cat but when it uses my border as a toilet steps had to be taken, so the next best thing was a menacing looking concrete ornamental cat from the garden center. Job done not seen it since.

what happened to all my plans the seasons nearly gone ?

thanks anyway Primrose I will keep asking around locally. Westi, they are a bit more energetic up here they climed to the top of my apple tree which is about 6ft and cleared the lot last year.

I have just had about a 3rd of my potatoes eaten by them, what i would like to know is? can i still plant in that bed or will i have to disinfect or even remove the soil, would appreciate your thoughts on the subject. thanks jeff

this is the first time i have grown peas, can anyone tell me what the tiny little white grub with the little black head is please, plus how to treat them. thanks for any info. jeff

re-what you eat,i follow the fact that if you eat 2000 calories and burn 1500 off most people will get fat,it works for me(i am fat).

thanks for the replies people, will take it onboard and not have the biggest compost heap this year. Westi,my computer skills are far worse than my gardening skills and they are next to nil but i will try and post more, anyway thanks again to all of you. jeff

sorry if the subject has been discussed but i can not find it , i am quite new to gardening (i have an allotment), anyway regarding garlic i planted mine last october the other day i uncovered one to see how they were going to my surprise it was like a giant spring onion. My question is why did this...